US 8,819,564 B1Granted

Distributed discussion collaboration

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsTaliver Heath, John Mishanski

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Abstract

The present invention relates to systems and methods for distributed discussion collaboration and making an agenda for an event over a network. In an embodiment, a system may include an aggregator configured to aggregate discussion items submitted by collaborators, and a view controller associated with the collaborators and configured to provide for display the aggregated items. A system may also include a voting module configured to receiving voting information submitted by the collaborators for the discussion items, and an ordering module configured to analyze the voting information and order the aggregated items based on the analyzed voting information. In another embodiment, a method includes aggregating discussion items submitted by collaborators and receiving voting information for the aggregated items. The method further includes ordering the aggregated items based upon an analysis of the voting information, and providing for display on a user interface the aggregated items with respective voting information.

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Dependent claims

A system for distributed discussion collaboration over a network,

comprising:
a computing device;
an aggregator, implemented on the computing device, and configured to aggregate a plurality of discussion items submitted by one or more collaborators during an event over the network and associated with a discussion item revoker configured not to permit the one or more collaborators to revoke a particular discussion item within a certain time period;
a view controller associated with the one or more collaborators and configured to provide the aggregated discussion items for display on a viewing device with respective voting information and customized to each of the one or more collaborators based upon submissions by each of the one or more collaborators and one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the affiliations represent at least one of a group and an organization and the respective display for at least one of the one or more collaborators is different from another and wherein the respective voting information includes presentation on the viewing device of at least one of a voting score and a voting amount indicator;
a voting module configured to receive the voting information submitted by the one or more collaborators for the aggregated discussion items based on a voting configuration, to assign a greater weight to positive voting information than to negative voting information and to assign different weights to the voting information submitted by each of the one or more collaborators based upon the one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the voting module is further configured to generate the voting configuration based on the one or more affiliations of the one or more collaborators;
an ordering module configured to analyze the voting information and create an order for the aggregated discussion items based on analyzed voting information, the ordering module further configured to exclude from the aggregated discussion items those aggregated discussion items that do not satisfy a voting information threshold;
and
a moderator interface configured to enable a moderator to manage the aggregator, the ordering module, the voting module and the view controller.

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A computer-implemented method for distributed discussion collaboration over a network, comprising:

(a) aggregating a plurality of discussion items submitted by one or more collaborators during an event over the network and not allowing the one or more collaborators to revoke a particular discussion item within a certain time period;
(b) receiving voting information submitted by the one or more collaborators for aggregated discussion items based on a voting configuration, assigning a greater weight to positive voting information than to negative voting information and assigning different weights to voting information submitted by each of the one or more collaborators based upon one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the affiliations represent at least one of a group and an organization and, wherein the voting configuration is generated based on the one or more affiliations of the one or more collaborators;
(c) creating an order for the aggregated discussion items based upon an analysis of the voting information, wherein the order excludes those aggregated discussion items that do not satisfy a voting information threshold;
(d) providing for display on a user interface aggregated discussion items in accordance with the order created, with respective voting information during the event including customizing the aggregated discussion items with respective voting information for display for each of the one or more collaborators based upon submissions by each of the one or more collaborators and the one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, display for at least one of the one or more collaborators being different than for another and wherein the respective voting information presents on the user interface at least one of a voting score and a voting amount indicator;
and
(e) providing a moderator interface configured to enable a moderator to manage the aggregator, the ordering module, the voting module and the view controller.

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A system for making an agenda for an event over a network, comprising:

a computing device;
an aggregator, implemented on the computing device, and configured to aggregate a plurality of discussion items for the event over the network that are submitted by one or more collaborators prior to the event and associated with a discussion item revoker configured not to permit the one or more collaborators to revoke a particular discussion item within a certain time period;
a voting module configured to receive voting information submitted by the one or more collaborators for the discussion items based on a voting configuration, to assign a greater weight to positive voting information than to negative voting information and to assign different weights to voting information submitted by each of the one or more collaborators based upon one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the affiliations represent at least one of a group and an organization and, wherein the voting module is further configured to generate the voting configuration based on the one or more affiliations of the one or more collaborators;
an ordering module configured to analyze the voting information and create an order for aggregated discussion items based on analyzed voting information, wherein the ordering module is further configured to exclude those aggregated discussion items that do not satisfy a voting information threshold;
a view controller associated with the one or more collaborators and configured to provide the aggregated discussion items for display with respective voting information on a user interface and customized to each of the one or more collaborators based upon submissions by each of the one or more collaborators and the one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators prior to the event, wherein the affiliations represent at least one of a group and an organization and display for at least one of the one or more collaborators being different than display to another, the computing device creating the agenda for the event based upon the aggregated discussion items and wherein the respective voting information includes presentation of at least one of a voting score and a voting amount indicator on the user interface;
and
a moderator interface configured to enable a moderator to manage the aggregator, the ordering module, the voting module and the view controller.

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A computer-implemented method for making an agenda for an event over a network, comprising:

(a) aggregating a plurality of discussion items submitted by one or more collaborators of an event prior to the event and not allowing the one or more collaborators to revoke a particular discussion item within a certain time period;
(b) receiving voting information submitted by the one or more collaborators for aggregated discussion items based on a voting configuration, assigning a greater weight to positive voting information than to negative voting information and assigning different weights to voting information submitted by each of the one or more collaborators based upon one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the one or more affiliations represent at least one of a group and an organization, wherein the voting configuration is generated based on the one or more affiliations of the one or more collaborators;
(c) creating an order for aggregated discussion items based upon an analysis of the voting information, wherein the order created excludes those aggregated items that do not satisfy a voting information threshold;
(d) providing for display on a user interface aggregated discussion items with respective voting information prior to the event including customizing the ordered aggregated discussion items with respective voting information for display for each of the one or more collaborators based upon submissions by each of the one or more collaborators and the one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, display for at least one of the one or more collaborators being different than for another and wherein the respective voting information includes at least one of a voting score and a voting amount indicator;
and
(e) making the agenda for the event based upon the aggregated discussion items.

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A non-transitory computer storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

(a) aggregating a plurality of discussion items submitted by one or more collaborators during an event over a network and not allowing the one or more collaborators to revoke a particular discussion item within a certain time period;
(b) receiving voting information submitted by the one or more collaborators for aggregated discussion items based on a voting configuration that assigns a greater weight to positive voting information than to negative voting information and assigns different weights to voting information submitted by each of the one or more collaborators based upon one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the one or more affiliations represent at least one of a group and an organization, wherein the voting configuration is generated based on the one or more affiliations of the one or more collaborators;
(c) creating an order for the aggregated discussion items based upon an analysis of the voting information, wherein the order created excludes those aggregated discussion items that do not satisfy a voting information threshold;
(d) displaying on a user interface the aggregated discussion items with respective voting information during an event including customizing the ordered discussion aggregated items with respective voting information for display for each of the one or more collaborators based upon submissions by each of the one or more collaborators and the one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, display for at least one of the one or more collaborators being different than for another, and wherein the respective voting information includes at least one of a voting score and a voting amount indicator;
providing a moderator interface configured to enable a moderator to manage the aggregating and ordering of the discussion items, the voting configurations and the viewing of the voting information.

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A non-transitory computer storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

(a) aggregating a plurality of discussion items submitted by one or more collaborators of an event over the network, prior to the event and not allowing the one or more collaborators to revoke a particular discussion item within a certain time period;
(b) receiving voting information submitted by the one or more collaborators for aggregated discussion items based on a voting configuration that assigns a greater weight to positive voting information than to negative voting information and assigns different weights to voting information submitted by each of the one or more collaborators based upon one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, wherein the one or more affiliations represent at least one of a group and an organization, and wherein the voting configuration is generated based on the one or more affiliations of the one or more collaborators;
(c) ordering the aggregated discussion items based upon an analysis of the voting information, wherein the ordering excludes those aggregated discussion items that do not satisfy a voting information threshold;
(d) displaying on a user interface ordered aggregated discussion items with respective voting information prior to the event including customizing the ordered aggregated discussion items with respective voting information for display for each of the one or more collaborators based upon submissions by each of the one or more collaborators and the one or more affiliations of each of the one or more collaborators, display for at least one of the one or more collaborators being different than for another, and wherein the respective voting information displayed on the user interface includes at least one of a voting score and a voting amount indicator;
and
(e) making the agenda for the event based upon the aggregated discussion items for viewing by the one or more collaborators.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.